{"id":2507,"date":"2016-08-12T06:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2016-08-12T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T21:10:19","slug":"critique-of-romanticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/critique-of-romanticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique of Romanticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"alaindb\"<\/a>Just can’t stop laughing about how much the truth hurts \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

AlainDeBotton<\/strong>.com<\/a>‘s Critique of Romanticism<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/2016-08-08\/7641598<\/a><\/p>\n

A few snippets:<\/p>\n

Instilled emotions propel us into Romanticism.<\/p>\n

Romanticism tells us we’re quite good and pure and perfect, very optimistic, we’re all like children.<\/p>\n

This attitude makes you self-righteous.<\/p>\n

Bluntly: affected thru childhood and adulthood, we are all demented in slightly different ways. we’re all just holding it together somehow (13:00)<\/p>\n

No one can be bothered to tell you your obvious craziness which they know about after 30 mins of meeting you, unlike you who still doesn’t know after 40 years.<\/p>\n

And yes spot on about instincts. Cos while once healthy, they’re now totally screwed, and off cue!<\/p>\n

The cult of the instinct – we’re looking for forms of torture \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Relationships – not about love, but about honesty!<\/p>\n

Love is about admiration of what is good and accomplished in another person.<\/p>\n

(53:00) But also about being pupil and teacher at the same time, pointing out stuff that sucks about the other so they get a chance to become the best possible version of themselves.<\/p>\n

Love is connecting up with teaching. But you have to be relaxed, jovial, slightly lighthearted.<\/p>\n

Melancholy is sadness worn with dignity. Sometimes you have to call on that emotion too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My personal mantra echoed: Life is all about forgiveness. And so is love \ud83d\ude42 just use your ethical imagination (not your ego).<\/p>\n

Be a loveable idiot, and learn to love another idiot.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just can’t stop laughing about how much the truth hurts \ud83d\ude00 AlainDeBotton.com‘s Critique of Romanticism http:\/\/abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/2016-08-08\/7641598 A few snippets: Instilled emotions propel us into Romanticism. Romanticism tells us we’re quite good and pure and perfect, very optimistic, we’re all like children. This attitude makes you self-righteous. Bluntly: affected thru childhood and adulthood, we are all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","tag-about-the-web-and-you-and-me-and-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}